small press, big plans
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1st, 2012
Dig some photos. And take stock of the fact that, by my estimation, each one of these books involves around 18 hours of labor. Dang I’m proud of these. Hope you like ‘em!
Price is $300. There is a waiting list, and the edition of 10 is almost sold out, so email us if you want [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2012
At this point, I had made the covers and covered the inside boards with black cloth, but the outside boards were still exposed. Rather than covering them with plain bookcloth, I decided to use inkjet canvas (basically, it’s heavyweight canvas with a special coating you can print on, so the final product has the look [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2012
In this installment, we cover the incredibly interesting process of putting black cloth on books. You might remember from the previous installment that this hardcover has an M shape, which creates the problem of the book being kind of floppy. This is why I made stiff spines for the two sections that will face out [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2012
After planning this book for what seems like ever, taking some time off to recharge after burning myself out this fall, and ordering a bunch of supplies, it’s time to get down to business and make the 12 copies of the deluxe edition of Some are Young and Some are Free by Skinner.
In this post, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2011
The nice thing about the name “Chance Press” is that it’s easy to remember, and it is simple. The not-so-nice thing about it is that other people may end up using the same (or a similar) name. Bill at Bottle of Smoke Press probably doesn’t need to worry about this.
Recently, an anthology of comics by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2011
Normally, we don’t accept submissions, since we like to spend our time working on books rather than reading and responding to things. However, there are a couple openings in our schedule for early 2012 that we’re trying to fill.
The first project we want to do is the next installment in our widely respected Chance Press [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
Last you heard, we were working on a hardcover, deluxe edition of the Inkpoems book by MJP. Because the paper MJP uses for these works of art is so distinctive, I wanted to use it to cover the boards of the hardcover, making it the dominant component of the binding. Originally I thought I would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
So, what have your fine friends at Chance Press been up to the past couple months? Well, with the restoration of Carol Es’s books completed, we’ve been focusing on our next two projects, which we’re excited to announce:
Coming (hopefully) in June of this year is Ink Poems by Michael Phillips (MJP to you and me). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2011
As a follow-up to my post about archival materials, I thought I’d write about fixing up Scribbles in a Sandstorm. Avid readers may recall that the problem we faced was that a particular kind of tape we used had some undesirable effects on paper – namely, that it turned paper yellow. I’m glad we caught [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2011
We published Dave Donovan as part of our first publication, the poetry anthology A Common Thread. Since then, however, we’ve been wanting to put out a book giving Dave center stage. I am the Circus is that book – a quick burst of four poems pulled from Dave’s past couple years of writing. He’s the [...]